Ducktown, Tennessee
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Ducktown is a city in Polk County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 461 at the 2020 census and 475 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Cleveland, Tennessee metropolitan area.
Buildings along Main Street in Ducktown
A train bringing copper ore out of the Ducktown mines, 1939. Smelter fumes have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott.
View across Ducktown, with Big Frog Mountain in the distance
Copperhill, Tennessee
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Copperhill is a city in Polk County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 443 at the 2020 census. It is included in the Cleveland Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Ducktown, Tennessee
…According to tradition, Ducktown was named after a Cherokee leader named Chief Duck. According to the original border surveying plan, Ducktown (and Copperhill, Tennessee) would have been in North Carolina. In 1819, surveyors were instructed to follow the highest ridges to the Georgia line. However, at Unicoi Gap surveyors…
Downtown Copperhill
Copper mine and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill, 1939